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RAPPINGS IN THE DARK

I want to say right here, that I think in this day a great many
children of God are turning aside and committing a grievous sin. I dont know as they
think it is a sin, but if we examine the Scriptures, I am sure we will find that it is a
great sin. We are told that the Comforter is sent into the world to "guide us into
all truth," and if He is sent for that purpose, do we need any other guide? Need we
hide in the darkness, consulting with mediums, who profess to call up the spirits of the
dead? Do you know what the Word of God pronounces against that fearful sin? I believe it
is one of the greatest sins we have to contend with at the present day. It is dishonoring
to the Holy Spirit for me to go and summon up the dead and confer with them, even if it
were possible.

I would like you to notice the 10th chapter of 1st Chronicles, and 13th verse:

"So Saul died for his transgression which he had committed againstthe
Lord, even against the Word of the Lord, which he kept not,and also for
asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, toinquire of it; and
inquired not of the Lord: therefore He slew him,and turned the kingdom
unto David the son of Jesse."

God slew him for this very sin. Of the two sins that are brought against Saul
here, one is that he would not listen to the Word of God, and the second is that he
consulted a familiar spirit. He was snared by this great evil, and sinned against God.

Saul fell right here, and there are a great many of Gods professed children to-day
who think there is no harm in consulting a medium who pretends to call up some of the
departed to inquire of them.

But how dishonoring it is to God who has sent the Holy Spirit into this world to guide us
"into all truth." There is not a thing that I need to know, there is not a thing
that is important for me to know; there is not a thing that I ought to know but the Spirit
of God will reveal it to me through the Word of God, and if I turn my back upon the Holy
Spirit, I am dishonoring the Spirit of God, and I am committing a grievous sin. You know
we read in Luke, where that rich man in the other world wanted to have someone sent to his
fathers house to warn his five brothers, Christ said They have Moses and the
prophets, and if they will not hear them, they will not hear one though he rose from the
dead. Moses and the prophets, the part of the Bible then completed, that is enough. But a
great many people now want something besides the Word of God, and are turning aside to
these false lights.